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  1. Some improvements in Nil Rider before the Steam release of RogueViz [1]! Previously the game simply ended when you rode off the surface. Now, you can ride off to reach the layer below -- and because of how straight lines work in this geometry, you can drop directly below!

    As explained in our video [2] without gravity objects follow helices, with radius smaller when the slope is closer to vertical. With gravity, the slope changes in time, so the projection of a freely falling unicycle is quite a funny curve (pink).

    [1] store.steampowered.com/app/227
    [2] youtube.com/watch?v=FNX1rZotjj

    #RogueViz #nilrider #NonEuclidean #NonEuclideanGeometry #mathart #gamedev